AMD Radeon R9 FURY X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

VS

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 FURY X and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

4080 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 FURY X +29562%

8.602 TFLOPS

GeForce 8500 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 FURY X

VS

GeForce 8500 GT

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Apr 2007

Pirate Islands

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR3

4096bit

Memory Bus

128bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

4096

Shading Units

16

256

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

67.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

268.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

8.602 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.602 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

537.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

275W

TDP

30W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

G86

Fiji XT C8 (215-0862040)

GPU Variant

G86-300-A2

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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